Rectifying International Injustice

Rectifying International Injustice
Author: Daniel Butt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199218242

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Rectifying International Injustice examines the theory behind claims for reparations and compensation as a result of historic international injustice.

Rectifying Historical Injustice

Rectifying Historical Injustice
Author: Lukas H. Meyer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2022-11-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000800075

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Calls for redress of historical wrongs regularly make headlines around the world. People dispute the degree to which justice should be concerned with righting past wrongs, with some arguing that justice should be primarily focused on claims arising from present disadvantage. Proponents and sceptics of restitution, compensation, and other forms of historical redress have engaged with the thesis that historical injustice can be superseded, the idea that changing circumstances following historical injustices can alter what justice later requires. The “supersession thesis,” developed by legal and political philosopher Jeremy Waldron, has been challenged, both conceptually and in terms of its possible application and implications. This is the first book to critically assess how the supersession thesis might be reconstructed, challenged, or applied to empirical cases, with an eye toward larger questions surrounding the temporal orientation of justice. Cases examined include Indigenous peoples, linguistic injustice, and climate change. The edited volume includes contributions by established and junior scholars from philosophy, law, American Indian Studies, and political science, who draw from Indigenous thought, settler colonial theory, liberalism, theories of historical entitlements, and structural injustice theories. It concludes with a reply by Jeremy Waldron. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

Rectifying Wrongs

Rectifying Wrongs
Author: M. Vaca Paniagua
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN:

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This thesis is concerned with the problem of rectification in the theory of justice. We are faced with examples of great historical injustice over the last few centuries. A proper regard for the demands of rectification seems required of us in the face of the overwhelming importance that victims place on it; without it, no society can hope to sustain mutual respect among its citizens, the non-victims and the victims, nor probably foster the self-respect of the victims. I argue that the problem of rectification poses a distinctive and fundamental problem for classical theories of justice and specifically for John Rawls's account of justice-as-fairness. Defenders of Rawls might claim, first, that rectification falls outside the scope of his theory of justice, since that is intended as ideal theory, and thus formulated against the fictional assumption that no historical wrongs have taken place. In this view, rectification is a concern of real political theory but not of ideal theory of justice. I argue that this defence is mistaken. Secondly, defenders of Rawls who concede that rectification is a proper part of the ideal theory of justice might claim that the principles of justice-as-fairness provide a basis for determining the extent to which justice requires rectification of wrongs. This too, I argue, is mistaken. In light of the demands that rectification places on us, I propose an alternative picture of equality as conceived of within the liberal tradition.

Freedom from Past Injustices

Freedom from Past Injustices
Author: Nahshon Perez
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2012-07-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0748649646

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Should contemporary citizens provide material redress to right past wrongs? There is a widespread belief that contemporary citizens should take responsibility for rectifying past wrongs. Nahshon Perez challenges this view, questioning attempts to aggregate dead wrongdoers with living people, and examining ideas of intergenerational collective responsibility with great suspicion. He distinguishes sharply between those who are indeed unjustly enriched by past wrongs, and those who are not. Looking at issues such as the distinction between compensation and restitution, counterfactuals and the non-identity problem, Perez concludes that individuals have the right to a clean slate, and that almost all of the pro-intergenerational redress arguments are unconvincing. Key Features *Unique in claiming past wrongs should not be rectified *Analyses pro-intergenerational material redress arguments *Case studies include court cases from Australia, Northern Cyprus, the United States and Austria, and political and social movements from the US, Palestine and Arab countries

Rectifying Wrongs

Rectifying Wrongs
Author: Moises Vaca Paniagua
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN:

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Enduring Injustice

Enduring Injustice
Author: Jeff Spinner-Halev
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2012-04-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107017513

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Argues that understanding the impact of past injustices faced by some peoples can help us understand and overcome injustice today.

Injustice and Rectification

Injustice and Rectification
Author: Rodney C. Roberts
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2005
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780820478609

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This book aims to help answer two questions that Western philosophy has paid relatively little attention to - what is injustice and what does justice require when injustice occurs? Injustice and Rectification offers a taxonomy of justice, which sets forth an initial framework for a moral theory of justice and focuses on framing a conception of rectificatory justice. The taxonomy is ground for this book's eleven other essays, in which a diverse group of authors brings philosophical analysis to bear on the idea of injustice itself and on some important conceptual and normative issues concerning the rectification of injustice.

Historical Redress

Historical Redress
Author: Richard Vernon
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2012-07-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441121315

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An introduction to the philosophical implications of the recent surge of political and ethical interest in historical redress.

Injustice and the Reproduction of History

Injustice and the Reproduction of History
Author: Alasia Nuti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108419941

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Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.